Re: Sims I'm not playing with anymore are doing their own thing even though I turned off the free will

if your not in control of those sims anymore the game takes over with  story progression, the only sims you control are the ones you play with another example of this is i play with a family for a while then go to edit town to play with another family  even if just for a sim day and switch back to the first family chances are things will have changed within  the family